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Global communications icon Nokia has released a brand new blockchain pilot geared towards creating new methods to save healthcare information. In the news release on its site, Nokia declared that it already had started the project along with OP Financial Group. A hundred players are participating in the bid to check how they can store and publish their health information whilst getting a level of privacy in that particular data. According to Nokia’s website, the firms are utilizing a blockchain…

A few days following CME Group as well as the CBOE released their bitcoin futures contracts start dates, U.S. clearinghouses are revealing issues about the way the services were created. In the open letter sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Walt Lukken (chief executive of Futures Industry Association or FIA) said that people from the organization are concerned regarding their vulnerability to bitcoin’s value shifts due to these contracts. The organization has over 15,000 members, including a number…

Financial Exchange in Tokyo is taking an initial steps on the way to starting bitcoin-related items. According to Bloomberg News earlier today,Tokyo Financial Exchange has already created a working team for the early effort to begin listing futures contracts based upon the cryptocurrency. As reported by the news service, this could make up a very first phase towards moving for something new in Japanese national law which would clear out the runway for the bitcoin future. The particular disclosure came…

California-based commuter airline Surf Air published a week ago that it will support ethereum and bitcoin payments for the month to month membership as well as rental services. The world’s first all-you-can-fly private airline will let customers to pay for the seats using both cryptocurrency via a mobile application. This will serve a number of cities around Texas,California, as well as Europe, as reported by a press release. According to the British online newspaper, The Independent, the provider makes it…

A brand new patent data coming from Sony shows the way the Japanese technology conglomerate might be utilizing blockchain as part of the education system. Last August, Sony reported that it was working together with IBM in order to develop a range of educational services, that would utilize the technology simply to secure student data as well as develop part of the system for sharing that information in between agreed-upon participants. The particular application coming from Sony, released a week…

The more efficient version of the Raiden payments channel system has been released in the main ethereum blockchain. Set off yesterday, the release happens several weeks after µRaiden (Micro Raiden) first released in an ethereum test net. The concept powering the project, that is a simpler start on the still-in-development Raiden network, would be to give a system for micropayments comparable to bitcoin’s Lightning network. Similar to Lightning, Raiden is envisioned in an effort to scale the ethereum network through…

PwC, among the world’s “Big Four” auditing and accountancy company, has accepted its first ever bitcoin payment. The particular announcement happens the week in which the digital currency hit through the US$11,000 mark. This isn’t certain whether Hong Kong is the only office in the PwC global network of offices which allows bitcoin as payment. The company announced that aside from bitcoin, it will also accept some other liquid, and established cryptocurrencies, particularly coming from customers it advises in the…

Bitcoin cash creators are making “tentative” plans to increase the cryptocurrency’s block size once again this coming year 2018. That is based on the new, approximately 6 to 12-month roadmap presented yesterday by the bitcoin cash’s developer team, Bitcoin ABC. The particular plan particularly consists of 2 hard forks – an improvement method which needs everybody operating the software to update – planned schedule in May and November of 2018. Bitcoin cash is a hard fork of the cryptocurrency bitcoin…

All the eyes are on Bitcoin while it gets near $10,000. And because the price mania carries on, a drive for institutional cryptocurrency trading opportunities in the U. S., in which government regulation remains to be greatly strict and underdeveloped, is really heating up. The operator of Japan’s leading Bitcoin exchange bitFlyer has now formally launched in the United States right after getting approval coming from regulators such as the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). As part…

Samsung SDS, a subsidiary of the South Korean tech giant Samsung Group, has believed to establish a blockchain-based platform targeted for the public sector . As reported by the Korea Herald newspaper, Samsung SDS has signed a new agreement along with the Seoul Metropolitan Government which provides a backbone to create a new style of “information strategy” method – making use of blockchain in order to help administration around health, public safety as well as travel issues by the year…